The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-09
vns overpcwering, and men saw type Of

was overpCwering, and men saw type OF
their doom as the cane kept falling and fall
ing until the knob Of the cane struck Mr.. Liv-
ingston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly and
said, "But the grace of God can stop you as
stopped that cane:n and then there was glad
ness all through the house at the fact of par
don and peace and salvation. swell" said
the people. after the service, II guess you had
better send Livingston home; he is making
the revival worse" Oh, for the gales from
heaven and Christ ON board the ship! The
danger of the church of God is not in revi-
walls.
Again, my subject impresses me with the
fact that Jesus was God and man in the same
being Here he is in the back part of the
boat. Oh, how tired he looks; what sad
deans he must have! Look at his counte-
nance; he must be thinking of the cross to
come. Look at him; he is man-bone of
our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired. he falls
asleep; he is man. But then I find Christ
at the Prov of the boat; I hear him say,
'Peace. be STILL; and 1 see the storm kneeling
at his feet and the tempests folding their
wings in his presence; he is God.
If / have sorrow and trouble and want
sympathy go and kneel down at the back
part Of the boat and say: 20 Christ, weary
one of Gennesarct, sympathize with all my
sorrows, man of Nazareth, man of the cross" "
A man, man. But if | want to conquer my
spiritual foes, if | want to get the victory
over sin, death and hell, come to the front
of the boat and kneel down and l say: 20
Lord Jesus Christ. thou who dost hush the
tempest, hush all my grief; hush all my
temptation; hush all my sin." A man, a
man; God, a God.
I learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush tempest
1t did seem as if everything must go to
ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of
managing the ship; the crew were entirely
demoralized; yet Christ rises. and he puts his
foot ON the storm and it crouches at his feet.
Oh, yes, Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble Perhaps it was the
little child taken away from you-the sweet
est child OF the household, the one who asked
the most curious questions, and stood around
you with the greatest fondness, and the spade
cut down through your bleeding heart Per-
haps it was an only son, and your heart has
ever since been like desolated castle, the
owls of the night hooting among the falling
arches and the crumbling stairways
Perhaps it was an aged mother You al
ways went to her with your trubles She
was in your home to welcome your children
into life, and when they died she was there to
pity you; the old hand will do you no more
kindness; that white lock of hair you put
away in the casket, or in the locket, didn't
look as it usually did when she brushed il
away from her wrinkled brow in the home
! circle or IN the country church. Or yom
| property gone, you said; 81 have so much
bank stock, have so many government Sc
| curities, have so many houses, have SC
| many farms'-all gone, all gone.
Why, sir, all the storms that ever trample6
| their thunders, all the shipwreoks have MOI
been worse than this to you. Yet you have
not been completely oyerthrown. Why
| Christ hushed the tempest. Your little ont
was taken away. Christ says: 81 have thai
| little one in my keeping. 1 can care for hin
as well as you can, better than you can, {
| bereaved motherln Hushing the tempest
| When your property went away God said
"There are treasures in heaven, in banks tina
never break" Jesus hushing the tempest.
There is one storm into which we will al
have to run. The moment when we let go o
this life, and try to take holl Of the next, W,
will want all the grace possible. Yonder
| see a Christian soul rocking on the surges O
death; all the powers of darkness seem let ou
against that soul-the swirling wave, th
thunder of the sky, the shrek of the wind, al
seem to unite together; but that soul is no
troubled; there is no signing, there are u
tears; plenty of tears in the room at the de
parture, but he weeps no tears, calm, salts
fed, peaceful; all is well. "By the flash O
the storm you see the harbor just ahead, an,
you are making for that harbor, All shal
be well, Jesus hushing the tempest.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide:
We're home at last, home at last
Softly we drift on its bright, silv'ry tide,
We're home at last.
Glory 10 God all our dangers are DER,
w stand secure on the glortficd shore;
Glory to God! we will shout eVermQre,
We're home at last,''